Selenium

(The Element Selenium)

Selenium is a constant constituent of bones and teeth.

Marked effects on the genito-urinary organs, and often indicated in elderly men, especially for prostatitis and sexual atony. Great debility; worse, heat. Easy exhaustion, mental and physical, in old age. Debility after exhausting diseases.

Skin
Dry, scaly eruption in palms, with itching, Itching about the ankles and folds of skin, between fingers. Hair falls out from brows, beard, and genitals. Itching about finger-joints and between fingers; in palms. Vesicular eruption between fingers (Rhus; Anac). Seborrhea oleosa; comedones with an oily surface of the skin; alopecia. Acne.

Extremities
Paralytic pains in small of back in the morning. Tearing pain in hands, at night.

SleepSleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse abdomen. Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always same hour.

ModalitiesWorse, after sleep, in hot weather, from Cinchona, draught of air, coition.